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smoke into the air hundreds flooded east bay hospitals complaining of respiratory problems and other health issues chevron extinguish the fire early this morning but people in the community it is still demanding answers. reporter kristin harris was at tonight's meeting. degrees they want to know exactly what toxins were released into the air and they challenged and even shouted down chevron officials tonight at a raucous and very crowded meeting here. before chevrons community meeting ever did. protesters wore gas masks as they chanted outside of the memorial auditorium. inside officials apologize for the fire that ripped through crude unit for last night due to a chemical vapor late sunday, jet black smoke 1,000 ft. high. after an apology for this
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irruption any concern that because user community last night. an apology that seemed to be an insult to some of the residents here. where is your boss? how you sleep at night? to get out of here. some even storm the stage is the public, and session began. chevron now says 949 people had to be treated for health issues. i asked him directly to tell us what the police hours of weekend figure out what's on our food the way distributed in communities. members of the rich and activist groups claim whatever was in the air kill their community garden. dewi's this committee is a better community having chevron here. and i think that is the end of the story. and some residents
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fear this is just the beginning of their worst nightmare. chevron is offering compensation to residents who had property costs related to this or medical costs they've established a hotline now that they say will help people make those claims. well as thousands of those people complaining of health problems are hoping to get some kind of compensation from chevron a bay area attorney posts a sign in his windows same chevron claims filed here and tonight people lined up around the block complaining of various ailments linked to the fire. chevron says already paid for medical expenses. they looking for something more than that? no but i'm actually in tattered entitled if there is in the wrong with me because we even know what was going on so they can say million things about having nothing be wrong with the air but we don't know that. what about the children?
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what about other elements people have is a the people with respiratory problems. air samples taken from around the refinery in lake county health inspectors found that the lid and still not pose any significant health concerns. the last big fire at the richmond refinery was laid back in 2007 and investigators said they defect to see a lot of pompous to blame and in 1999 and explosion there is in flames more than 100 ft. into the air three chevron firefighters were injured. this latest fire feels concern about gasoline supply shortages also prizes and northern california jumped 38¢ overnight. csi reporter kiddo shows us if your needle is anywhere near e you'd better florist your next fill-out. because of that fire the gas prices were going to go up. by the end of the week you're ready to say a few more four- letter words. gas prices will be
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going that as consumers will philip at a, the richmond refinery makes 18 of the states apply the cleaner burning the more expensive california plans though at that plant shut down supplies will tighten and prices will go up. that's the reaction we're already seeing a lot of activity in the trading markets of gas will definitely be more expensive for us coming friday and saturday. the average retail price went up 6¢ overnight is not $3.86 a gallon experts say should easily top $4 soon. capitan has her own conspiracy theory. it's the whole industry. the does wanted to get consumers to pay more. he debuts in the fire as an excuse to raise prices? these and all the time. hear this cell on work wolfe road and read avenue ted upside go for a sense in this morning.
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are you going to buy anyway? i don't have a choice. and so we left for little while to get something to eat came back and saw that price had jumped another 6¢ to $3.91 for regular unleaded to glaze says that the price will go up a good bit more before it goes back down so it might be a good idea to save yourself some money in fill-out now. and go to the bank. the dun sutterville thank you. and to find the cheapest gas in your area good to cbs as at dot com/gas anti-cancer see interactive map by city or buys a code for the lowest prices. and one other note the fireplace damper on the new exhibits intended to commemorate the chevron refinery is 110th anniversary. the rich and museum of history plans to unveil a today but a berkeley cancel the opening reception and it is now been postponed indefinitely. did
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police they area lawmaker boston last year for shoplifting is in the news again. it has to do with a big raise that she gave to a staffer that's not what's raising eyebrows reporter linda yee explains its what that staffers spend the money on. and who was getting the checks. assemblywoman very high of she and her husband's pay just under $700,000.80 years ago for this 1887 square-foot town house in castro valley. but in a down market the mortgages under water and no one is fine. after the couple bought a new home in 2010 the assemblywoman rented this out to her legislative aide chris parma and just weeks after giving him a $7,500 raise. that raises ethical questions last year matthew and nasty was arrested for shoplifting thousands of dollars with the clothing from neiman- marcus to later pled no contest political analyst joe two men says voters will remember this
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latest revelation. did we get the most people will look at this and say it's inappropriate to have given someone raises later turn around and leverage property to them because it creates the appearance that taxpayer is are subsidizing it raise which is going to pay rent which keeps the house and the assembly person's name. hashes former neighbor is stunned. not good. well i guess they're sort of thing could be separate events. but it does seem a little fishy. the assemblywoman did not respond to requests for comments by the district directors said harmon no longer works for hajji saying only that he was transferred although his lincoln paid still lists them as her legislative aide neighbors say the assemblywoman's tenons lived here for about two years and that about a month or two ago moved out. they say this is an attempt to distance herself from
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88 may not help her get votes in november. she's running for alameda county supervisor. the very best thing you can say is that it just doesn't smell right. castro valley and the cds five. strangers come to town promising one thing but we discovered there after something else. the fortune buried below this northern california town. making sure you get what you pay for emma's of the new strategy to keep thieves from swiping or packages. and mars the atmosphere is one%. and this bay,,
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there's a new gold rush in northern california but this time is liquid gold the central coast is suddenly the next mother lode for oil. in cbs five reporter erin martin shows us that has a lot of mysterious people showing up. when the big trucks rolled up to jim leaps ranch last month he was told it was for seismic testing. now leave me i think while this is really exciting. because the ranch sits right on the san andreas fault that didn't take long for lead in pauley goldman to get suspicious. as soon as i
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saw how many people were involved it felt like i don't see how this could be about earthquakes. because to have that amount of money? it could be used for will. much to their surprise the couple couple noticed their land and town of aromas and the central coast is sitting on one of the richest deposits of oil in the united states. called a moderate shale. starting just south of the bay area and runs to the middle of the state underneath according to recent federal reports 15 and half a billion barrels of oil. while deposits are so deep and hard to get to hear the drilling would of been economically unfeasible just a few years ago now is possible through dances and hydraulic fracturing. the technique creates fractures and rocks by injecting them with water laced with chemicals and
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sandras allowing the oil or gas to flow out. the environmentalists are sounded the alarm because another state's the industry has been linked to cases of ground water pollution and drinking water contamination and even earthquakes. could cracking becoming to run this? within a week california has no regulations and none on tracking. that's not how this issue is being portrayed. spokesperson people are overreacting in california so far tracking has been purposely saved. there's never been any suggestion that hydraulic fracturing is posed or resulted in any seismic activity. so who is behind the prospecting? it turns out free resources the company that paid for the seismic testing is already in
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los angeles lakeland's john but pillbox in watsonville let us to this man. and operations officer for for the resources. kevin geoffrey also happens to be chief legal, for granite rock. a local quarry in the biggest landowner in the area. the goal for grant rockets to thoroughly understand our granite deposits. what about his company free resources? so as granite rock tried to get into the oil business? is this seismic survey does show some possibility of oil then we will work through the permitting process but he promises grant iraq has no intention to engage in any from the activity. but he wouldn't say how well would be extracted it found. leading the people of aromas unconvinced. this is the gold rush and today is we need to get ahead of this and the need to get ahead
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of it very quickly. i don't have to rely on somebody's word i want there to be regulations in place. supervisors are getting into the fray considering passing an ordinance similar to monterey county though the more restrictions on any kind of oil drilling. alan martin cbs five. also is tonight we're getting our first caller is from nasa's newest mars rover the photo from curiosity shows the north wall of the crater that it's exploring. a young boy from the bay area is right there with the mars rover csi reporter julia f. goodrich on how he became part of the nasa history. you might call time year-old andrew senseless the curiosity kid. because in mars the atmosphere is one%. not only did enjoy and that fall of curiosity on marisol's enough is his name is on the rover.
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is on a microchip that is says is on the back of the rover. it applies to wrote mars in my name is on the road to mars. in 2009 and signed up to have their name at sun microchip curiosity is now carry on its back a microchip to mars. and really very cool. andrew has been part of its eight month journey through space. we've been watching on the web site. even watching is close to perfect landing. andrews and his sister and even has marses cool etched on her fingernails. angers badger ms. filled with and ilya and his base knowledge is quite impressive for his age. mars has to move their considered astrid's. part of the real goal of the mission is the hunt for signs of life on mars. and signs that earth's creatures may not be a lawn in the universe. enter the curiosity
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kid is part of this history in the making. in pleasanton juliet's goodrich cbs five. on earth amazon has fitted out a way to outsmart package thieves we've seen people stealing deliveries right out front steps especially during the holidays. reporter elizabeth cook shows us what amazon is doing to make sure that you get what you paid for. it's next to the liquor and across from the champs when a handful of amazon lobbers mad dog in the bay area this one at the 711 in san francisco's hillside neighborhood. delivering packages to people and hamas is going away. has quietly begun making daily deliveries. to lock boxes at six locations. to ease the frustration of online shoppers who are time during the day. and to combat the top of that known as porsche pirating. capt. as
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youtube video. it says to robert no one's home rodney. how does it work? emma's on customers now that choice at checkout. when the delivery arrives easily by ups customers receive an e-mail with the code that code open says one of the individual tours of your items. the equates those cheaper for amazon. the single box to a home. users have several days to retrieve their merchandise and maybe pick up the slack be rather adds. this is a way of saying if i really wanted and get it. many analysts predict will soon be seeing lots more lockers from amazon and other eat traders just-in-time and holidays. did way from the weather center we will have the bright lights of the tri valley were that is
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going to be one of the areas where we have a compromise air quality.,,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,welcome back to cbs
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five. to 91 degrees in concord a and clear skies for the most part. only begin clouded by sfo. 58 san francisco upper 50s and rosa and now 65 very mild and redwood city tomorrow as the temperature goes up the air quality goes down we're looking for moderate air quality east of the bay back into the diablo mountain range all the way into the santa clara valley this is going to be is this area of high pressure was billed amplified it's not going to go anywhere very quickly. where in the midst of a warming trend. not so much tomorrow tom chris pickle is averaging 5 san francisco typically 65 going was 69 degrees but seven degrees above normal in livermore santa rosa only four degrees up from where
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we should be for this time of the year so a little bit of pass defense night overnight otherwise tomorrow is going to be hot in and away from the same and we will see partly sunny conditions along the coast. it does call for a heat wave. tonight and i did to the '50s 51 to about 59 degrees in mountain view and the upper 50s otherwise to monetize the '50s and '60s to the beaches '60s through the '70s up to 80 degrees in the peninsula in 88 degrees in morgan hill about 9091 in gilroy and to 99 degrees. 59¢ a bestial 9 degrees and a lot of the extended forecast today could be at that. ,,,,,,,,,,,,
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that injury to them practice according to tests were negative and he is back at team had course tonight. a practice day before his injury was hurt on
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his helmet to helmet hit with teammate phil wheeler. who was on the ground for 15 minutes. from the field by paramedics and taken by a ambulance to a local hospital again good news tonight. the a's lost five games in july so for august though they have four losses include in their last three entry game against the angels. does this bring in a big lumber back in the lineup but it was johnnie comes right in the big shots to take c j wilson deep his 12th homer this season and the a's off and running one to nothing. just getting started in the bottom of the third potential double play ball going through the legs in the inning. bottom of the six announced a some of the a's after derrick morris and natomas solace. eason on the first time this season due the a's a 9 to nothing lead next to the onset of the onslaught continues there goes joshua attica's 20 that, and the
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a's retentive for the jump the angels for a second in the american league west and they're not tied for seven wild-card spots in the american league giants and st. louis top 121 for the giants with buster posey that is his fifth home run in the last six games busters 18th of the year. giants are of three to nothing. barry's you know when he was facing the former cal bear he takes the good deed to the second time the game cut in the giants' lead 32. how but some insurance walking brandon of the giants won four to two that dodges loss nine and the giants increased their lead in the nl west to one-half games. and the pendulum and national the lakers defeated no. + date is now that attends six nice day advance to the west regional semifinals pet llama is just two wins away from the little league world series. i have in my hand the top five for tuesday night.
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at no. 5 the national act. and astra's game no need to be a glove. they could probably use him right about now. member for a the second baseman donovan's a lot of has to cover a lot of room. it makes a nice light in cash against the mets' no. 3 turnarounds' it's supposed be easy. don't tell that to yankee pitchers plunge in the head by a former says. national center fielder and bernadine now with the sensational catch any in the 12th inning to had to the game. number one cocoa cress be seen this? he takes it away. brilliant play in by kenji morale is. and the a's win 10 to four. what is going on the a's? and love it. and a solid
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